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   Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 04:11:35 JST Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

   Something I'm noticing with a lot of the new astroturfed "open" social media projects (the kinds funded by big, opaque foundations/billionaire's passion projects) is that their view of a region's policy priorities isn't what that community itself wants to do, but what Americans _imagine_ the community wants.

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     Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 04:11:34 JST Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

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     For Europe, that's privacy and vague sense of European nationalism. For queer people, it's something to do with trust & safety. It's like someone who isn't part of any of those communities tries to reinvent what they care about from first principles.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 04:11:34 JST Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

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     It's always very visible based on how the branding works. Some of them are branded genuinely like how someone trying to lobby the commission or trying to resurrect GAIA-X would design it. Or how eIDAS's current branding looks like. It's very weird to someone who is actually part of the community, esp. when actual European projects in the space (e.g. Mastodon, Codeberg etc.) exist and do absolutely _none_ of this kind of stuff.